Twenty-four hours a day somebody is running, somebody else is trying to catch him. Out there in the night of a thousand crimes peo...ple were dying, being maimed, cut by flying glass, crushed against steering wheels or under heavy car tires. People were being beaten, robbed, strangled, raped, and murdered. People were hungry, sick, bored, desperate with loneliness or remorse or fear, angry, cruel, feverish, shaken by sobs. A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering,When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing:...When they talked of their Raphaels, Corregios and stuff,He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Your small hands, precisely equal to my own--only the thumb is larger, longer--in these hands...I could trust the world, or in many hands like these,handling power-tools or steering-wheelor touching a human face ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

See, each man and each woman actually does have an owner's manual. Nothing's written down anywhere, but the directions for operati...on of an individual in a relationship are detailed and specific nonetheless. So when you start out with someone, you're essentially driving a strange car for the first time and none of the controls are labeled. So the wipers can come on at strange times, sometimes you stall. On top of that we've all met people with bad steering, no brakes, needs a muffler, headlights a little dim, too much in the trunk, not enough under the hood, prone to backfiring, won't turn over, and just plain out of gas. Which is why when people get ready to get married they so often seem to choose basic transportation. It's simple, it's reliable, and it gets you there. That's important on a long trip.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Ultimately the two men are united by their reaction to the French Revolution, for it was Rousseau's explosive concept of the Gener...al Will coupled with the breakdown of the social order which in the long run created both Emperor and Fuhrer. The former ensured the demolition of Christian Europe, while the latter completed it.... Napoleon saw himself as offering a via media between the ancien regime and the Terror. He claimed to have "cleansed" the revolution, combining with it what was best from the past, morally regenerated by Revolutionary ideals. Yet for all his protestations, he accepted the Revolution only because it made his career possible, and because those who had profited from it were ready to support his regime. Similarly, Hitler argued that he was steering a middle path between capitalism and Marxism. National Socialists claimed that their political and social programme had thwarted the machinations of international finance, while at the same time defeating the evil consequences of the French Revolution as embodied in its children--liberalism and, above all, Bolshevism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It was a poetic recreation to watch those distant sails steering for half-fabulous ports, whose very names are a mysterious music ...to our ears.... It is remarkable that men do not sail the sea with more expectation. Nothing was ever accomplished in a prosaic mood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »